>>Ah no, Dr Zhivago. While Omar does come close, the lady (Julie Christie, IIRC) is a total miss, as is the rest of the cast. They simply can't breathe Russian. So as far as Western approximations go, it's not that bad, but not much good either. Pretty much the only good one of the kind that I saw was the old "Karamazovs" with Yul Brynner (sp?), and that's only because of him. The others were so-so.
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>What did you think of Enemy at the Gates?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215750/I thought that was a cracker.
Talking of duels, how about "The Duelists", based on J Conrad's "The Duel" - Harvey Keitel and Peter Fonda?
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
